igo THE LIFE OF E. J. PECK 



after an absence of two months Mr. Peck found 

 himself back once more at Fort George. In a 

 private letter about this time he says : "I found 

 some who wished to follow the Saviour and who 

 showed me every kindness during my stay with 

 them. One would boil my kettle over his oil lamp 

 so as to make tea to warm me : some would help to 

 feed and otherwise attend to our dogs, while others 

 would try and stop up all the crevices of our snow 

 house so as to make it as snug as possible." 



Reviewing in general terms his plan of living 

 with the people and going from iglo to iglo in order 

 to teach them, Mr. Peck says : " The children I gener- 

 ally gathered together in the largest snow house I 

 could find. They were then taught to read, in- 

 structed in the simpler truths of the Christian Faith, 

 and afterwards catechised to test their knowledge 

 of the truths they had heard. In the evening, after 

 the men returned from hunting, general meetings 

 were held, when, by the light of an oil-lamp, we 

 sang hymns, read alternately, had prayer, and I 

 then gave them a simple Gospel address. Friends 

 may, perhaps, think that such work is extremely 

 trying and depressing. True, the cold is very 

 intense, but then one should be willing to " endure 

 hardships " for the Master's sake ; besides which, 

 strange as it may appear, the Eskimos are the heart- 

 iest and happiest of people, so it is quite my own 

 fault if I feel dull amongst them." 



